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Birthday Girl

Saturday Night Live 2026 Season 52 Episode 5

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The setup

A birthday dinner at a Mexican restaurant turns into an all-out friend-group trial when the guest of honor decides a sizzling plate of fajitas is a personal betrayal.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

A group of friends toasts a birthday girl at a festive Mexican restaurant, where the guest of honor in a tiara and sash is already steering every compliment back to herself. When a server sets down fajitas, she takes it as an attack and accuses her friend Tina of ordering them to spite her, then of wearing the wrong color, scheming for clout and being a snake in the grass. The table splits into sides, the birthday girl storms off to the restroom for a dramatic prayer and returns with an apology that is really another insult, and Tina is formally banished for the coming year. Then the staff arrives with a sparkler-topped surprise from Tina herself, and the birthday girl instantly forgives her and asks for a bite of the fajitas.

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Highly quotable.

Ordering vegetas at another woman's birthday is like jumping in the water at another woman's baptism.

You a wolf in Fashion Nova clothing, for real, get out of here.

2027 is the year of no Tina.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Druski hosted this episode of Saturday Night Live, with The Strokes as musical guest.

ScriptEnglish · 59 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

00:01
Speaker 2
Go, birthday, go, birthday, go, go! birthday! Go, birthday! Go!
00:06
Daniela
Yay!
00:08
Speaker 2
Big D to the Maniella, turn up for her girl's birthday! period, period.
00:14
Speaker 2
Body tea, for sure.
00:17
Speaker 2
I just want to make a toast to the birthday diva with the kindest heart and the hottest body-yachty.
00:23
Speaker 2
Body-yachty-yachty!
00:25
Speaker 2
I am so excited to see you flourish and take the next chapter by the sacks.
00:29
Daniela
Oh, stop. Y'all don't make me cry on my birthday. Oh, my god.
00:34
Speaker 2
We love you, girl.
00:36
Daniela
Girl, like, where's our food? I'm about to show my kitty in this taqueria, for real.
00:39
Speaker 2
Taqueria!
00:42
Speaker 1
Okay, apologies for the delay, ladies. We have the beef tacos right here.
00:46
Speaker 2
Thank you. Those look good, girl. Those look good.
00:49
Speaker 1
We got the enchiladas right here.
00:51
Daniela
Yes, Carly, because you a messy hoe.
00:53
Speaker 2
Girl, stop. Girl, stop.
00:55
Speaker 1
Last, but certainly not least, we have these sizzling shrimp fajitas.
00:59
Tina
That's me. Looks so good.
01:01
Daniela
are Are you for real right now, Gina? Fajitas at my birthday? Like, do you hate me? Like, why would you stab me in the back like this?
01:12
Tina
Sorry, what is the issue?
01:14
Speaker 2
Oh, Tina girl, baby girl. Don't act brand new, ho, for real. Ordering fajitas at another woman's...
01:21
Daniela
It's Vegeta's.
01:23
Speaker 2
Vegeta's. I'm sorry, Daniela. Ordering Vegeta's at another woman's birthday is like jumping in the water at another woman's baptism.
01:30
Daniela
Like, this cannot be my life right now. This cannot be my life. Is this my life?
01:34
Tina
Okay, I really didn't mean to upset you. I just...
01:37
Speaker 2
Girl, you don't even like shrimp. Oh, you got all them vegetas for clout, bitch. Oh, Daniela, chill.
01:43
Daniela
Chill, because she got me messed up on my birthday.
01:46
Speaker 2
Oh, no, Daniela, don't cry.
01:48
Daniela
I can't breathe, y'all. Y'all know I got asthma and stuff. The vegetas folk doing too much. Like, get that away from me, for real.
01:54
Speaker 2
No, Daniela, don't.
01:55
Daniela
Oh, my god, girl, you burnt my hair on my birthday. She tried to set me on fire on my birthday.
02:01
Tina
No, I didn't.
02:02
Daniela
Don't you lie, Tina. You are a narcissist and a archisist.
02:07
Speaker 2
Hey, you a wolf in Fashion Nova clothing, for real, get out of here.
02:10
Speaker 2
Oh, come for her look.
02:14
Daniela
Because why would she show up in a black bodycon like, girl, please? Like, you know damn well the group was doing pastels today.
02:20
Speaker 2
Daniella, do not give her the power, girl.
02:22
Daniela
Whatever, y'all. I am so above all this. I'm a Christian, and y'all know that. I cannot let y'all get me out of character on my birthday.
02:29
Tina
I'm sorry, but wasn't your birthday like three months ago?
02:33
Daniela
Okay, and, bitch, like, I can't be 22.2? I'm sorry, y'all. I need to step out. All this drama got my tummy bubbling, for real. Like, I need to go to the girls room and make a move, and, like...
02:44
Daniela
Is nobody gonna come with me? Like, I need to have somebody help me wipe.
02:47
Tina
Oh, I can come. I can come.
02:48
Speaker 2
Uh-uh, she gay. Uh-uh, not her. Not her.
02:51
Speaker 2
Okay, don't worry, girl. I got you.
02:53
Daniela
Nobody talk until I get back.
02:58
Tina
Maybe I should just go.
03:00
Speaker 2
No. Yes.
03:00
Speaker 2
No, no, Tina, it's not you. She's just emotional because she was recently fired from Sephora for kicking the cardboard cutout of Jonathan Van Ness. And the worst part was, it wasn't even JVN's cutout. It was just a real woman with a couple chin hairs.
03:14
Daniela
Okay, I did some praying on the toilet, and I just want to take a moment and apologize.
03:19
Tina
Aw, you really don't have to.
03:20
Daniela
No, no, I want to apologize for realizing that Tina was a snake in the grass way earlier.
03:25
Tina
That's not a snake in the grass.
03:26
Daniela
The size was there. She carries a whole book bag everywhere. Like, what's in the bag, bitch?
03:32
Tina
my diabetes medication
03:33
Daniela
oh girl don't put that diabetes stuff like you just love cake i wipe my hands clean of you tina 2027 is the year of no tina like you my love our energy suck we are done
03:46
Speaker 2
happy happy birthday happy day to you we know that it's your birthday
03:52
Daniela
oh my god oh my god who did this seriously y'all know i'm an introvert
03:58
Speaker 1
This surprise came from your good friend, Tina.
04:02
Daniela
Oh, uh, Tina, girl, you know I love you, Bessie. Like, oh, my God, I cannot believe you did this for my birthday. Like, let me try some of them bajitas. I love you, girl. Please, like, for real.